"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
I have a coworker born in Vietnam and who came to the US because his uncle flew for South Vietnam in the war and was in prison after they lost and he was able to get free and come to the US because of McCain and has since been a lifelong Republican who was joking about the need for firing squads.
he only said this in context of people giving No Kings a dismissive wanking motion and he was right to point this out and now everyone is mad at him for being right about the history and right about edge lord left nihilism being a fucking cancer
underrated how Trump only offers the stick and the closest he comes to the carrot is to refrain, from now, to use the stick. This was bound to be the result even if it's pathetic it took us this long to get here. I'm worried about a more savvy autocrat in the future.
what's wild is the very opposite thing happened: Romney was the conservative far right choice in 2008 over McCain, and then the Tea Party moved the party so far to the right that by 2012 Romney was seen as a moderate by not just the conservatives within the GOP but by the Dems as well.
the Byzantine civilization was a successful and multicultural society that should be thought of with generosity and using their name as a pejorative is wrong please delete this
eh it's just investments in infrastructure instead of cash. There are some real concerns about it being a bubble and electricity transmission, less about the generation of electricity, that is just getting multiplied because Trump is killing tax incentives for solar.
What gets memory holed is that Romney was the far right alternative to McCain in 2008 and by 2012 the party had gone so far right that he was seen as some sort of moderate squish. People really ignore how the 2010 Tea Party astroturfing lurched the party right very fast.
Bernie being in the primary in 2016 could have made Clinton a better candidate but instead she melted down and it just showed how wrong it was for the party to clear the deck. If Platner can't beat Mills in a ranked choice primary he shouldn't be the nominee and he should welcome the challenge.
people get too weird about primaries: primaries should be competitive and politicians should have to earn votes and fight to get their message out and we should vote for people who enthusiastically and sincerely care about the values we have. Stop getting offended by people running in them.
Really think it's bad that the political movement I'm part of is exclusively full of people who seem to think trying to find some "well, actually" argument for why others are problematic and they alone are not.
The Bill Simmons episode of Bill and others hired because of George Floyd basically having an intervention on Rusillo because he admitted to voting for Trump in 16 will forever stick with me as meaning something even if I'm still not sure what
Or you'll never hear a Republican ever (in any forum ever) say "well we just gotta figure out how to convince voters who rightfully hate our guts to be nicer to us and support our violently dragging children out of their beds so we can deport them and their parents despite them being born here"
Yeah I just want Dems to have a better and more consistent message of "These guys are crooks and every single time a Republican is president they leave the country in a recession that a Dem president then needs to clean up after" or something! I know Politico is Politico but stay on message.
that's fine. I'm sure you won't believe that I'm driving people to the polls for local elections this week and next. Which is OK.
But, Dems need to do better messaging. Instead of talking to Politico about how they need to do better messaging Dems should just say "Trump and GOP are crooks" etc
